Leading US lawmaker warns of Iran ‘collision course’

AFP
October 17, 2011

WASHINGTON — A leading Democrat warned Sunday that the United States and Iran are on a “collision course” as Tehran steps up its nuclear program and escalates hostilities with its alleged plot to kill the Saudi envoy to Washington.

But Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said this was not the time for war with Iran, but for stronger international sanctions to change its behavior, saying she favored sanctions on the Islamic republic’s central bank.

“Iran is escalating, I believe, its nuclear development. Iran is increasingly hostile,” she said in an interview with Fox News Sunday. “It’s a very dangerous situation.”

“If you project out a number of years, we are on a collision course. If we want to avoid it, we have to take action to avoid it,” she said.

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